From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 29866@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29866: 27.0.50; cl-loop: Calculate the array length just once
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 17:27:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb971105-2e0f-426d-a7cb-994c6aa2f1b4@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1712280620320.16455@calancha-pc>
> While studying this code I found easier to hack if we use gensym's
> instead of make-symbol; otherwise, the code creates several symbols with
> the same printed representation "--cl-var--". For example, with
> current code you can read expansions with something like:
>
> (let* ((--cl-var-- 'foo)
> (--cl-var-- 'bar))
That's the same variable, `--cl-var--', bound
first to `foo' and then to `bar'.
> I prefer to read:
>
> (let* ((--cl-var--1 'foo)
> (--cl-var--2 'bar))
That's two different variables.
> Do you have any preference in these cases?
As presented here, they are not equivalent.
Check the actual code to see if the second
can, in fact, be used in place of the first.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-28 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-27 16:10 bug#29866: 27.0.50; cl-loop: Calculate the array length just once Tino Calancha
2017-12-27 20:13 ` Tino Calancha
2017-12-27 20:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-12-27 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-27 21:36 ` Tino Calancha
2017-12-28 1:27 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-12-28 1:49 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-28 1:52 ` Drew Adams
2017-12-28 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-28 17:21 ` Tino Calancha
2018-01-07 15:39 ` Tino Calancha
2020-05-06 2:21 ` Noam Postavsky
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